Texas

There are an estimated 421, 972 Muslims living in Texas, the fifth most populous Muslim state in the U.S., per capita. 117,000 of those Muslims live in the greater Houston area. One-out-of-every-fifty Texans, and Houstonians, will take part in Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting as it begins tonight. During the hottest months of the year, they will go the day without food or water, for the sake of faith. It pays to be in the know as Ramadan begins.
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Warren Jeffs, the leader and prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamist breakaway group from the Mormon Church, was convicted today on two counts of sexual assault on a minor. As CNN reports: Jeffs, who is representing himself, is charged with two counts of sexual assault on […]
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At a Drops Like Stars event in Tempe, AZ evangelical speaker Rob Bell asked how many people in the crowd were wearing crosses. A little over half the crowd raised their hands. Bell wondered aloud why it is that so many people wear ancient symbols of torture, pain and death such as the cross. It […]
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